Swagger Inn 169 - Sod this for a game of --soldiers-- Musketeers - let's go somewhere hot and sunny.

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Morning, when my old dog was a puppy he used to do that Helen
Work has, if anything, got worse now have some people off self isolating

That's a shame about the apartment ww, hope the property market improves soon.

Afternoon. No solar eclipse here either, cloudy all day.

Awww at CuteKitten.

Swan Update: We appear to be down to 4 cygnets and people are out looking for the missing one. The swan family go walkabout every morning to get from the big lake to the little one and then return in the evening. Goodness knows why, the big lake is enormous. As you can see they know where to cross the road but haven't yet mastered how to press the button to change the lights. Fortunately all the locals are aware of them. (Pic pinched from a lady on our local FB page.)

Hope everyone has had a good, or at least better day.

Evening wenches. Gosh I’m knackered.

Heard from doctor today who said he’d asked someone to phone me about the forms I’d sent last year re DS2. She left a voicemail with her email address (which I have because we’ve been emailing already) and apologised and did sound genuine about it, although I don’t actually think she’s at fault. She’d scored the forms and sent them on but now no one knows where they are. Fucking bastard bloody hell.

Peacocks can be noisy fuckers can’t they. Squeeeeee though at CuteKitten and the already occupied dressing gown

Oh Fancy that sounds epically shit.

Further squeeeeeee at that photo Apricot! Hope the missing cygnet turns up safely soon.

I’m off to stick my face in a bucket of vodka.

Evening.

Oh dear - why on earth is DaddySwan taking the cygnets for daily walks? (even if he is following the Green Cross Code) Hope the other one turns up (but I suspect not...)

FFS at the forms fiasco LetUs

Top idea there from Helen Fancy

Also at that video

I could get on board with that helen although I'd sadly still be expected to work if self isolating, so still no peace!

That is such a cute pic apricot, hope there is good news re the missing cygnet.

Morning wenches.

Hmm, not clicking the link!

Friiiiiidayyyyyy! Seems to be a bit cooler today but the weekend is set to be full on sunshine.

Ah - Geometry Dash - we love a good game of geometry dash

Cloudy and breezy here too, which is nice.

I am knackered - DS woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep so came to tell me all about it I'm going to be a waste of space today.

CuteKitten is killing everything in sight, including my ankles. FFS. Just as well he's cute... and has just rolled over onto my lap and started purring and kneading. Does he think I'm that easy to win me over? Yes, yes he does. (And yes, yes I am.)

What on earth is geometry dash?

Ah kittens I love 'em, but I am thankful that by the time we got ScaredyCat at 13 weeks her MumCat (apparently renowned in her neighbourhood for producing impeccably behaved demon mousers) had disciplined such scampiness out of her. She was the least bitey kitten I have ever known. Shame she didn't pass on some brains, but you can't have everything

Afternoon. Still cloudy here, but nice weekend forecast. I can't believe it's Friday again, where is this year going?

at the Vikings video.

Looks too complicated for me.

Cygnet 5 has turned up. Sadly he appears to have a broken leg. RSPCA have been called in. I'm just too invested in these swans.

DH has lost his golf game. Oh, the drama. If he hasn't improved by September when his membership is up, he will stop playing.

Evening wenches.

Such absolutely needy fuckers at work today. Meeeeeeeee what about meeeeeeeeee aaaarrrggghhhhhhhh

Hope you weren’t too tired Helen. Or at least it was because Athos made it worth your while.

LetUsCat used to help me read the paper when he was a kitten by climbing down my arm, into my lap and then sitting on the newspaper.

Oh poor cygnet 5

No golf? What?!

Oh look, there’s football on. I’ve got Sweden in the office sweepstake

Evening all. I have managed to get through the day without falling asleep. I may not have been Little Miss Cheerful though.

I have Poland in our office sweepstake. It's a very boring sweepstake this year - just a prize for the winner. Previously we also had fastest goal, fastest sending off, and silliest haircut - that sort of thing. So even if you had a rubbish team you had a chance of winning something. Oh well.

at the thought of MrA not playing golf. I'm sure he doesn't mean it - he's just in a grump about losing. Hope that the RSPCA sort out Cygent5.

Our wildlife report this evening includes shouty magpies (still) and a pair of hares in the field pretending that they were invisible when I passed them on my bike.

I may need to rename CuteKitten to StupidKitten, or BloodyAnnoyingKitten. There have been two bouts of hangbags at dawn with StupidCat, who was warning him off coming any closer, but the BloodyAnnoyingKitten did of course - then fell backwards off the sofa when StupidCat had enough of him and charged at him. Plus BloodyAnnoyingKitten is constantly attacking my ankles. Tonight I am tired and missing my quiet life with just one lap cat who is happy to curl up and sleep most of the time, with the occasional chasing of pingpong balls, and definitely doesn't launch herself, claws first, at every opportunity.

Morning all. The sun is burning through the cloud and it's looking like a hot day ahead. I have to go to SportingActvity today, and may also go into LocalCity to spend book tokens. Depends how teenagerish DS is being... but he also has book tokens to spend, so fingers crossed!

(CuteKitten jumped onto me, purred like a train and fell asleep on my lap last night, so all was, mostly, forgiven)

Morning wenches.

Cloudy here for the moment but I suspect another lovely day awaits. Off shopping to SlightlyFurtherAwayThanUsualShoppingPlace with LittleSis and Mother.

Good luck with spending the book tokens Helen. Do you have anything in mind?

Hmm sounds like he should be called ManipulativeKitten, although aren’t they all

DH went off for a run ages ago and he’s not back yet. I’m sure he should have been back by now, but he doesn’t take his phone with him so no way of contacting him. And just as I type this he’s come back. He decided to just go a bit further and then a bit further. Fucksake.

Afternoon. I have just had a snooze on the sofa with AnnoyinglyCuteKitten

Kitten is now waking up and starting to be niggly again I've just locked him in the cage.

Shopping was done - I got 'Featherhood' by Charlie Gilmour because it was recommended. Plus new shorts for DS, and a mini-chopper from Lakeland to replace the one that DH broke. Shopping ahoy! I was very odd - first time I've been out shopping (other than food) for... a long time.

It was cloudy earlier but has cleared over completely. When DH gets home I shall put him on kitten duty and go back to sleep to do garden stuff.

Evening. Lovely day. I spent the morning eBaying, as they have a good offer on at the moment. Then this afternoon was spent outside.

CuteKitten sounds a handful. I feel a bit sorry for StupidCat as she must wonder what has hit her.

at golf lessons for DH. It's a psychological thing. You're supposed to keep your eye on the ball until after you've hit it and suddenly after many eons of playing golf he can't do it and looks up too early. Consequently, it goes all over the place.

Curry for tea. Fortunately it's one I made earlier last week and put in the freezer. I do double quantities of stuff like that to save the hassle.

My condolensces regarding the sweepstake Letus

regarding the forms getting lost. Unbelievable.

Bumped into a neighbour today, he’s retired and we gossip about the neighbours sometimes. I told him about my car so now the car battery is charging at his place in his battery charging thingy. He also checked the oil So hopefully this will work.

Yay for nice neighbour ww and for Cygnet #5 being found

I am working. Booo
Did watch Lucifer last night, he was looking absolutely faf

Evening wenches.

Well done with the shopping Helen. Hope you enjoy the new book. I do like Lakeland. Went in one a few years ago with BestFriend who’d not been to one before. I wanted something specific, but she said there was nothing she wanted. I told her she’d come out with something she didn’t even know she’d needed. And she did

Shopping here went okay. Mother’s not that keen on clothes shopping but we did get her to try something on, but she didn’t get anything. I saw lots of nice clothes but a bit pricey for me. —I bought two jigsaws—

Excellent news re kind neighbour Wicked! at condolences re Sweden. I believe they er… they play attractive football which will make them, I mean the matches worth watching.

Don’t work too hard Fancy

Been to sister’s house this evening and had lovely food and a few drinks. Unfortunately I think the pollen count has reached stratospheric levels and the strongish breeze isn’t helping.

Evening all.

That's excellent news about your neighbour Wicked - fingers crossed your car gets sorted.

Apricot - yes, poor StupidCat If I'd realised how unimpressed she'd be then I would have considered saying no to the kitten, or said we'd foster it temporarily. Ho hum...

Hope that LetUs had a fun family shopping day Hello LetUs - hurrah for jigsaws and boo for pollen.

LetUs 'Crouchy's Year-Late Euros' has a brilliant Killers moment at the end www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ww7z/crouchys-yearlate-euros-live-series-1-episode-1

(They're not actually there - don't get your hopes up, it's just one of their songs are used.)'
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Anyway - morning all. It's gloriously sunny again out there. I must do things (like feed the livestock, and myself.